But there are plenty of Misadventures in the archives to keep you busy if you really need a Misadventures fix. 🙂
“Fortunate”:
“The First Book” by Rita Dove:
Open it
Go ahead, it won’t bite.
Well…maybe a little.More a nip, like. A tingle.
It’s pleasurable, really.You see, it keeps on opening.
You may fall in.Sure, it’s hard to get started;
remember learning to useknife and fork? Dig in:
You’ll never reach the bottom.It’s not like it’s the end of the world –
Just the world as you thinkyou know it.
“Saved paper”:
Back in the 1990s, there was a little card shop near the Uptown Theater. I can’t remember what it was called, but it used these little bags patterned with that I thought were too pretty (and looked too useful, even if I didn’t have a use for them…then) to just throw away. Today I stumbled across them again and now I have a use for them! I’m frankly amazed they survived all the moves!!
I took the bag apart and stuck it on the page, then tried to brighten it up a bit with some watercolors.
“I thought I’d enjoy these breaks from the naughty boys, but now I’m wondering if I need to be concerned about this art journaling business.” -Mayhem
